What is Hover Lookup?

Hover Lookup is a Chrome extension developed by bitsauce, and its main feature is "Holding + while hovering over a word will show the wiktionary entry for that word in an inline window.".

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Extension Usage Instructions

Pressing + while hovering over a word will show the Wiktionary entry for that word in an inline window.

The primary goal of this extension is to make looking up a word quick and easy. As I was transitioning from Firefox, where I had installed the "Wiktionary and Google Translate" add-on, to Chrome, I needed an extension for looking up words. Something that annoyed me about all the look-up extensions I tried, is that you need to select the word you want to look up, making it impossible to look up words in links! This extension fixes that by letting you simply hover over the word of interest, then pressing + to show the definition of the word.

Additional functionality:
- In the inline window it is possible to continue navigating to other word definitions, to get a better understanding of the word.
- It is also possible to look up multi-word phrases by selecting the phrase with the text cursor before clicking + .
- Supports any language and any word written in the Latin alphabet! (As long as there is a Wiktionary entry for that word)

Extension Basic Information

Name	Hover Lookup
ID	ogjdcbnhgjgabidifpnpiidgbkhlpnof
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hover-lookup/ogjdcbnhgjgabidifpnpiidgbkhlpnof
Description	Holding + while hovering over a word will show the wiktionary entry for that word in an inline window.
File Size	101 KB
Installation Count	371
Current Version	1.1
Last Updated	2017-10-25
Publish Date	2017-10-24
Rating	4.40/5 Total 5 Ratings
Developer	bitsauce
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Help Page URL	https://github.com/bitsauce/HoverLookup_ChromeExtension/
Supported Languages	en
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